Acer 233XC,configuration problems

[Guest stblack]

Hi everybody,

I have installed mdk10 official on my laptop and now I have problem in setting acpi and usb.

At first boot I have seen that inside lilo.conf there were the boot option acpi=ht.

Reading this forum I found that ht meas to load acpi only during boot.

With this default option I have seen that I had an error at the end of dmesg and the system were like freezed.

I changed into acpi=on, and now the system is working without error, but the usb 2.0 module that with ht option was loaded, now get an error. Considering that I have an external USB HD is a function that I need.

 

The lspci output is :

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:09.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller

During boot I see that usb 2.0 module will not be loaded. the lsmod output is :

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
agpgart                53092   6  (autoclean)
snd-seq-oss            30208   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event      6144   0  [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq                44720   2  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss            43396   0  (unused)
snd-mixer-oss          14224   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-intel8x0           22728   0
snd-ac97-codec         52748   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm                79748   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer              18788   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc          8948   0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
gameport                3268   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart         4800   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi            17344   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          5536   0  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd                    44036   0  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore               6244   0  [snd]
nfsd                   74128   0  (autoclean)
af_packet              14312   1  (autoclean)
ide-floppy             15776   0  (autoclean)
ide-tape               48240   0  (autoclean)
ide-cd                 33092   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  34048   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
floppy                 55644   0
serial_cs               5652   0  (unused)
ds                      8564   1  [serial_cs]
yenta_socket           12928   1
pcmcia_core            57088   0  [serial_cs ds yenta_socket]
button                  3532   0  (unused)
thermal                 7940   0  (unused)
processor              10808   0  [thermal]
fan                     2272   0  (unused)
ac                      2560   0  (unused)
battery                 6720   0  (unused)
8139too                16232   1  (autoclean)
mii                     3816   0  (autoclean) [8139too]
nls_iso8859-15          4060   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp850               4284   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   11948   1  (autoclean)
fat                    38424   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
usb-storage            93088   0  (unused)
scsi_mod              107360   0  [usb-storage]
usb-uhci               24976   0  (unused)
usbcore                75148   1  [usb-storage usb-uhci]
rtc                     8652   0  (autoclean)
ext3                   60400   2
jbd                    39552   2  [ext3]

Can someone help me in this module working, I don't have any good idea.

Another question. Can I suspend my work with acpi like in winxp? do I need some package to install?

 

thanks in advance

 

[formatted by spinynorman - welcome to the board :)]

[DragonMage]

Hmm.. it seems that there are the acer only loads usb-uhci module which is only usb 1.1 driver. In order to have usb 2 support, ehci-hcd module needs to be loaded also.

 

Anyway, what does your /etc/modprobe.conf say?

[Guest stblack]

I have modprobe.preload, not .conf, and is

--start--

scsi_hostadapter

intel-agp

--end--

 

My /etc/modules.conf is :

---start--

probeall scsi_hostadapter usb-storage

probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd

alias eth0 8139too

above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss

alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

--end--

 

thanks

[DragonMage]

Now that is weird. If you are using Mandrake 10 (with kernel 2.6.x) you should have a /etc/modprobe.conf.

 

Anyway, try loading the module manually by typing this command as root

modprobe ehci-hcd

[Guest stblack]

[root@localhost stblack]# modprobe ehci-hcd

/lib/modules/2.4.25-2mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.o.gz: init_module: No such device

Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg

modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.25-2mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.o.gz failed

modprobe: insmod ehci-hcd failed

 

Please note that if I boot with acpi=ht that module is loaded

I have the kernel 2.4.25-2mdk.

Do you think that maybe it's a kernel problem?

I can try installing a 2.6.x (>2.6.3 in the instalation of mdk 10 official), what do you think?

 

thanks

[DragonMage]

Well.. by all means.. do.. The great thing about Mandrake 10.x series is trying kernel 2.6.x. Hyperthreading is supported fully on kernel 2.6.x so acpi=on will use hyperthreading also.